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Welcome et bienvenue to LegalEase: a monthly Montreal-based and produced radio show on 90.3 FM CKUT – a broadcast about law, cast broadly. Le collectif LegalEase est un groupe d’étudiants et étudiantes en droit de la communauté montréalaise.This month the program is entitled, Building a Better Future . As a note, this episode includes content in English, French and Spanish. This is Host Lillian Boctor’s final show with LegalEase as host. We will miss her devotion and excellent... Topics: Forum Social Mondiale, World Social Forum, Law, Justice, McGill, LegalEase, Cooperation Jackson,...

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Welcome et bienvenue to LegalEase: a monthly Montreal-based and produced radio show on 90.3 FM CKUT. We broadcast law broadly. Le collectif LegalEase est un groupe d'etudiants et eudiantes en droit de la communaute montrealaise. This month the program is entitled, "Legal Decisions and Social Change." "Sometimes law precipitates social change, sometimes its the other way around." This month Garrett Zehr hosts a fine assortment of pieces: discrimination and the law, Insite and... Topics: legalease, law, legalese, insite, discrimination, canada, g20, common law, precedent, social...

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Welcome et bienvenue to LegalEase: a monthly Montreal-based and produced radio show on 90.3 FM CKUT. We broadcast law broadly. Le collectif LegalEase est un groupe d'etudiants et eudiantes en droit de la communaute montrealaise. This month the program is entitled, "Addressing the Medium." The Medium is the message. Yes. This month LegalEase 'instant messages' the medium - in addressing the stale form of legal instruction and thought as well as the burgeoning role of social media in... Topics: critical race theory, law, legalease, legalese, social media, law, canada, legal studies, activism,...

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Welcome et bienvenue to LegalEase: a monthly Montreal-based and produced radio show on 90.3 FM CKUT. We broadcast law broadly. Le collectif LegalEase est un group des etudiants et etudiantes en droit de la communaute montrealaise.This month the program is entitled, "Crimes." This month's show features a diverse set of programming on the topic of crime. New contributor Mark Phillips conducts an interview Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and how it relates to prisoners in the justice... Topics: law, legalease, legalese, canada, crime, criminals, criminal law, omnibus, george bush, fetal...

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Welcome et bienvenue to LegalEase: a monthly Montreal-based and produced radio show on 90.3 FM CKUT. We broadcast law broadly. Le collectif LegalEase est un group des etudiants et etudiantes en droit de la communaute montrealaise. This month the program is entitled, "On Strike!" First off, we head to the picket lines. Host Preeti Dhaliwal investigates the Fall 2011 MUNACA strike at McGill University. She canvasses opinions and gets a perspective on the strike based on the context of... Topics: unions, strikes, labour, grievance, michigan, labour, dispute, business, mcgill, munaca, law,...

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SPINLAW (Student Public Interest Network Legal Action Workshop) is an annual conference organized by students from University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, which aims to raise awareness and generate discussion about public interest issues. The conference creates a space for students, local activists and community members to share their experiences and perspectives on current social justice issues. The 2011 conference is titled Canada 2020: The future... Topics: Canada, toronto, osgoode, university of toronto, law, human rights, public interest, immigration...

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Welcome et bienvenue to LegalEase: a monthly Montreal-based and produced radio show on 90.3 FM CKUT. We broadcast law broadly. Le collectif LegalEase est un group des etudiants et etudiantes en droit de la communaute montrealaise. This month the program is entitled, "Litigating for Social Change." This instalment of LegalEase presents the question: Whither litigation? Practitioners who work in various fields discuss how they built a career around public interest litigation. We hear... Topics: public interest law, litigation, interveners, toronto, ontario, spinlaw, osgoode, legalease, ckut,...

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Welcome to LegalEase: a monthly Montreal-based and produced radio show on 90.3 FM CKUT, broadcasting the law cast broadly. This episode is entitled, "Trials and Tribunals." First, contributor Rana Alrabi interviews Frank Bara, who leads the London-based Russell Tribunal on Palestine. The Tribunal is a citizen's tribunal which aims to raise awareness and bring up issues of international law. http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/ Second, we turn to McGill's very own IPLAI - an... Topics: tribunals, courts, trials, palestine, frank bara, socrates, plato, aristotle, russell tribunal,...

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Welcome et bienvenue to LegalEase: a monthly Montreal-based and produced radio show on 90.3 FM CKUT. We broadcast law broadly. Le collectif LegalEase est un group des etudiants et etudiantes en droit de la communaute montrealaise. This episode is entitled, “Sex and the Law.” LegalEase’s Preeti speaks with Ponni Arasu is a Delhi-based lawyer and queer feminist activist involved with the Voices Against 377, a broad coalition that successfully fought to decriminalize homosexuality in India.... Topic: sex and the law

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Welcome to LegalEase: a monthly Montreal-based and produced radio show on 90.3 FM CKUT, broadcasting the law cast broadly. This episode is entitled, Case Study: The Oka Crisis at 20 years . What is the Oka crisis? Check wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis Host Melanie Benard directs this reflection of our collective legal consciousness. First, Olympian and director of the First People's House at McGill Waneek Horn-Miller shares her recollection of the Oka crisis. Horn-Miller... Topics: oka crisis, canada, quebec, montreal, kahnawake, Kanehsatake, Obomsawin, horn-miller, Indian Act,...

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Welcome to LegalEase - a Montreal-based and produced radio show on 90.3 FM CKUT broadcasting the law cast broadly. This week our show is entitled, âMental health and the Law.â The first portion of our show hops on a bus tour for Mental Health week. Lainie takes us aboard at St. Catherine and Beaudry. We subsequently drive around the city with Bernard Vallee of LâAutre Montreal leading the tour. This tour allows our listeners to understand the city of Montreal from another perspective. We... Topics: deinstitutionalization, disability, disability and the law, douglas hospital, ethics, mental...

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Welcome to LegalEase - a Montreal-based, produced and broadcast radio show concerning "The Law". This month's episode is entitled: Silent Labourers. Mae Nam looks at the International Labour Organization's 90th Anniversary conference at McGill, interviewing Prof. Peggy Smith of Iowa University about the conditions of Domestic Workers. Daniel Mayer, in his fourth segment on Francophone rights, looks at the relationship between Quebec and the Francophone community outside Quebec through... Topics: superior court of ontario, canadian legal history, legal history, judges, biography, french school,...

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Welcome to LegalEase - a Montreal-based, produced and broadcast radio show concerning "The Law". This month's episode is entitled: The Legitimatrix. True to content, Professor Richard Sherwin's lecture carries the same name. He gave the annual Beatty lecture in 2010 - it was entitled: LEGITIMATRIX: LAW, ETHICS AND THE DIGITAL NEO-BAROQUE. How are new visual technologies are transforming the practice and theory of law? This raises new questions, such as: What authorizes visual meaning... Topics: richard sherwin, legitimatrix, mcgill, law, legalease, canada, supreme court of canada, omar khadr,...

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Welcome to LegalEase - a Montreal-based, produced and broadcast radio show concerning "The Law". The bulk of this program features a talk sponsored by the McGill Law Journal from November 2009. Slate columnist Will Saletan, Abby Lippman, and Professor Campbell will take part in a round table discussion entitled âReproductive Rights: Exploring the Political and Legal War Over Abortion, Surrogate Motherhood, and Embryonic Lifeâ. The goal is to push the parameters of the debate... Topics: reproductive rights, law, legalease, montreal, mcgill, franco-ontarien, french canadian, mcgill law...

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Welcome to LegalEase - a Montreal-based, produced and broadcast radio show concerning "The Law". Today's program is divided into two parts. First, contributor Phil Duguay will look at various aspects of the recent Canadian parliamentary initiative Bill C-300 on Mining. Duguay interviews the bill's primary author, member of parliament Hon. John McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood, Lib.). Second, we will play some footage from a recent discussion Panel entitled: Improving Global Access to... Topics: law, mcgill, legalese, mining, parliament, pharmaceutical companies, essential medicines,...

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Welcome to LegalEase - a monthly Montreal-based, student-run radio show concerning "The Law". This installment of LegalEase investigates the tax exemption for homeowners in a documentary prepared by Nick Dodd. "Is buying a home the best way to save for the future?" The incisive documentary was prepared for a course in Tax Law and McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Have comments? Interested in more public legal education? Check out our blog at... Topics: tax, homes, houses, subprime, mortgage, economics and law, tax law, capital gains, poverty

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This monthly LEGALEASE show draws on the work of three contributors and one great host. First, Phil Duguay interviews Kevin Matthews, Executive Director of the National Campus and Community Radio Association, on the future of community radio in Canada. This is in light of recent hearings by the Canadian Radio Telecommunications Commission on the subject. Next, Mae Nam offers a glimpse into a gender sensitivity training session for the Philippine Judiciary. In conclusion, we turn to Canadian... Topics: crtc, alert radio, gender equality, judges, montreal, law, legalese

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Welcome to Legal Ease - a monthly Montreal-based, produced and broadcast radio show concerning "The Law". The collective is composed of law students from McGill University. In our first half, we discuss Buffy Sainte-Marie and her legacy. The CIA black-listed 1960s Cree singer has been a strong voice on women's equality, native issues, and peace for half a century. Her recent concert as part of POP Montreal offered an opportunity to reflect on her legacy and play a few songs. In our... Topics: Buffy Sainte-Marie, McGill University, law, abortion, holocaust, quebec, pro-life, pro-choice,...

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Welcome to Legal Ease - a Montreal-based, produced and broadcast radio show concerning "The Law". Today we consider the following question: is the Judge an improvisatory virtuoso? In our first half, Legal Ease takes a look at the recent conference 'Lex Non Scripta, Ars Non Scripta: Law, Justice and Improvisation' which took place at the Sala Rossa on June 19th and 20th, 2009, featuring an address by Jonathan Neufeld, an assitant professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University.... Topics: CKUT, Montreal, law, politics, improvisation, Fernando Vegas, Torrealba, Venezuela, legalese,...